Insert link is for HTML links. I can link to, for example, myself.
Insert Journal Link is for an LJ-style link.
We don't cache friends info yet, but Gaal has been talking about it. We could add that in once we have that.

HTML preview is available if you build LogJam with it. See the output of configure (or talk to the person who packaged it for you) if you don't have it. It'll show up in the "Entry" menu right next to Validate XML, as well as in the offline entry browser.

One of the great features that Xjournal has (Mac client) is the ability to autocomplete the username when you add a friends link. If you are looking at caching friends information would something like this be possible in Logjam?

That's what I was trying to say by We could add that in once we have that., where the first "that" is autocompletion and the second that is "caching info". ;)

I thought that may be the case - but I wasn't sure if that was what the original poster was getting at.......

If there was an Aqua native version of Logjam I probably wouldn't use any other client...... *hint* ;-)

If I had a nice G5 desktop I'd consider making one. *hint* :P

You can't have mine! ;-)

<hugs shiney computer>

I guess I'll just have to be content with Xjournal or the X11 version from darwinports for the moment then.....

I think if I were on OSX I'd use an OSX-native client, just for the consistency.

And these clients are pretty much all GUI code so porting LogJam is extremely unlikely. Now if they ported GTK2...
There has been work in it, but I don't think there's enough interest from developers.

Second the request for autocomplete (when you get to it, no pressure :) ... it's one of my favorite Xjournal features.

Sign me,
Mister Multi-Platform :)

Since the LJ user tag includes a link to the journal (in fact, it's the only obvious part of the link, if you don't think to click on the head) I'm not sure why you'd want both features? But I don't feel strongly about it, I was just half hoping to free up room in the dialog box for target and title attributes.

I didn't do my own compile. I'm using LogJam 4.3.2 from the Debian/testing distro. Does anybody know if there's an alternate package I can apt-get to install one with preview? Or am I going to be stuck having to recompile on my own?

Bitch at compwiz. :P
I guess some Debian users complained that with HTML it was getting bloated, and then others are in your camp. It seems to me that the whole reason to use something like Debian is that I don't have to worry about how many dependencies a program has; I can just install it and it works.

The use case I had for non-lj-user links is for people who continually link to their friends in their posts, especially when their friends have weird user names. I sorta have the advantage of hanging out with people like brad, nathan, patrick, lisa, etc.; I figured other people would tire of saying "Spent the day with kuteegurl79" over and over.

as an aside to this comment, in a strange way... what about a feature that lets you put your own custom name for a specific user that links to their journal and has the lj head...?

That would be *very* confusing. I'm used to seeing the head and link and knowing that's an LJ username. If that pattern were to start showing up and the text wasn't the actual username, it would really confuse a lot of people.

Agreed. Some people do it manually and it drives me nuts.

(ironmaus, for example)

It needs quite a bit of typing to do it manually; probably they are using some client like Semagic which does that? So it's not quite "manually" :)

Personally I'm against this feature, at least until it's not "officially" supported by livejournal (in a way, say, like <lj user="ljusername" name="some text" />).

(Minor note: you don't have to say "lj comm" any more. "lj user" does the Right Thing server-side whether the target is a user, community, synfeed, or whatever.)